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Vindiciæ legis
Vindiciæ legis: or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the errors of papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians. In XXIX. lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London. / By Anthony Burgess, preacher of Gods Word.Vindiciæ legis: or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the errours of papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians. In XXIX. lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London. / By Anthony Burgess, preacher of Gods Word.
London: printed by James Young for Thomas Underhill, 1646
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
LECTURE II.
1 TIM. 1. 8, 9. Knowing the Law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
IN these words you have heard, 1. the position, [The Law is good:] 2. the supposition, If a man use it lawfully.
Now, this know in the general, that this is no more derogative 1to the Law, that it is such a bonum, quo aliquis malè uti potest, then God, or Christ, or the Gospel, or Free-grace are; for, all may turn this honey into gall: yea, an Antinomian may set up his preaching of grace, as a work more eminent, and so trust to that more then Christ. I do acknowledge that of Chrysostom to be very good, speaking of the love of God in Christ, and raised up in admiration of it, Oh (saith he) I am like a man digging in a deep spring: I stand here, and the water riseth up upon me; and I stand there, and still the water riseth upon me: So it is in the love of Christ and the Gospel, the poor broken heart may find unsearchable treasures there; but yet this must not be used to the prejudice of the Law neither. And take this, as a Prologue galeatus to all I shall say, That, because the Law may be used unlawfully, it is no more derogation, then to the Gospel: Woe be to the whole Land, for the abuse of the Gospel; is it not the matter of death to many? I shall show the general ways of abusing the Law: